Help! I need a bigger board!

Good advice, a little thing but have the game board setup by the time they show up and have a PDF of the rule book available for everyone ahead of time.  A timer is a good thing.

I have experimented with going after Japan in several recent games. Although I still consider my startegy far from perfect – Pacific is really messy! – I think Japan can be really squeezed into corner quite easily, but there has to be one condition met. And this is at least one of the battles does not go for the Japan well.

If Japan fails Pearl or does it heavy and loses some ships, or has very light presence in China or – most often – exposes some of its ships to counters, there are two stretegies you can really follow with success: 1. US IC build on Sink R1 and UK IC build on India R2 plus naval buys US or 2. just naval buys US which is the way to go if Japan lost or is about to lose 2 of its capital ships.

If Japan does not make mistakes R1 and does not hit bad luck though, I think it is very difficult to break it. But then still you can slow it most of the times sufficiently to get to Berlin the same round japs get to mosc which should be sufficient.

Japan definitely does not need to be house ruled to weaken them.

Re:  Japan invasion of US

Early on, you concentrate on infrastructure (i.e. transport escorts and transports) for Atlantic.

If Japan drops to Alaska, they’re screwing with their early progress in Asia, so you react then.

Around R3, you can overbuild on infantry a bit and do as follows:

Post a few infantry in West Canada.  Build infantry at East US.  Build tanks at West US.  Keep a couple extra infantry in East Canada.

Now the West Canada infantry stay where they are, say 2-3.  Infantry at East US move to East Canada for Algeria drop.  West US tanks move to East Canada for Algeria drop.  If Japan drops to Alaska, West Canada infantry and West US tanks move to Alaska to reclaim, and use the extra East Canada infantry for the Algeria drop and/or to replace the West Canada infantry.

If Japan moves in in force, that’s great.  They totally screwed their progress in Asia, and you can see the thing coming a mile away, so you can easily prepare for it.

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My brother and i play spring 42 and he beats me alot. Any allied strategy will help. Thanks in advance

use a battle calculator and use fighters(at least 10 of them)

@Lithiume3:

Thanks how the bomber rule for the factory

First, if the territory with the factory has an aa gun, it fires one die at each bomber. Roll one die per bomber and if it’s a one, then the bomber is shot down and can’t attack. Then roll one die for each surviving bomber. Add up the rolls and their sum is the amount of damage to the factory. A factory can’t be damaged more than two time’s its territory’s production value.

Yes.  However, in this particular example there would be no need for them to do so, since with the bomber unable to hit them any longer the battle would be effectively over.